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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






2. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






3. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






4. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






5. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






6. Multisensory Structured Language






7. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






8. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






9. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






10. Open syllable






11. Whole body learning






12. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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13. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






14. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






15. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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16. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






17. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






18. Closed syllable






19. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






20. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






21. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






22. Wide Range Achievement Test






23. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






24. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






25. Final stable syllable

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26. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






27. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






28. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






29. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






30. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






31. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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32. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






33. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






34. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






35. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






36. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






37. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






38. English as a second language






39. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






40. State Board of Eduation






41. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






42. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






43. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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44. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






45. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






46. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






47. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






48. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






49. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






50. Individual Educational Plan